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offers security, no dues, and great benefits". 5) Breastfeeding is cheaper (in fact, except for the need of a nursing bra, it‘s free). Formula feeding an infant for one year can cost up to $3200. That‘s almost a third of the welfare rate for a single mother in some provinces. Tight budgets encourage women to "stretch" or water down formula, leading to malnutriâ€" tion in many cases. Remember that every time that the Food Bank issues an urgent appeal for donations of formula. 6) Breastfeeding is environmentally friendly. It is produced locally and delivered directly to the conâ€" sumer without packaging, A breastfeeding baby takes exactly the amount of food that is required. Formula, on the other hand, uses energy in its production, delivery and preparation and leads to mountains of is about? Let‘s put it this way: do the separatistes really believe that they have more in common with Haitians or the Cajuns of Louisiana (Frenchâ€"speaking, Catholic Americans deported from New Brunswick by the British in the 1700s) than with people in generally I am proud that our daughter was exclusively breastfed and that our second child, due in November, will be as well. By way of thanks to my wife and in recognition of World Breastfeeding Week (August 1 â€" 7), here are 10 of the many reasons to breastfeed your baby â€"â€" and to support women who breastfeed theirs: 1) Breastfeeding is better for your baby (part one). Breastmilk is specially designed â€"â€" by nature â€"â€" to feed your baby. You have everything your baby needs for the first sixth months or her or his life (more than six 2) Breastfeeding is better for your baby (part two). Particularly in the first three days of your child‘s life, breastmilk passes on vital natural immunities to your baby. Ear infections, gastroâ€"intestinal infections and other diseases (including meningitis) are present in far higher proportions (up to six times higher) among formula fed babies. 9) Breastfeeding is better for you. One in nine Canaâ€" dian women will be affected by breast cancer. One of the best ways to reduce your risk is to breastfeed. The longer you breastfeed, the greater the benefit to you. 4) Breastfeeding encourages bonding between mother and baby. As the poster says, "this union months is even better). No manufactured formula 10 reasons to breastfeed your baby Quebec‘s as Canadian as hockey for the U.S. to invade Canada under the guise of "staâ€" bilization" or "protection of vital American interests" â€" the excuses they used for unprovoked military action in Panama, Granada, El Salvador and Nicaragua. It‘s not likely to happen, but just the ugly thought of becoming American should make all of us think twice at three in the morning. 8) Breastfeeding deâ€"stigmatizes women‘s breasts and thereby contributes to women‘s equality. For too long, men have defined women‘s breasts as existing for their pleasure alone. Your breasts were primarily intended for feeding your baby. Some narrowminded people may object to your feeding your baby in certain places, but that‘s their problem â€" not yours. 9) Breastfeeding delays ovulation and works as a natural means of spacing your children. It‘s not perâ€" fect, but breastfeeding acts as a natural contraceptive and helps to control the number and spacing of chilâ€" dren in your family. 10) Breastfeeding lets you avoid supporting unethiâ€" cal formula manufacturers. In spite of a World Health Organization (WHO) / UNICEF Code that prohibits the advertising of formula, the provision of free samâ€" ples to women and promotion through health care facilities, formula companies are doing all of these you are saying "no" to these companies. things in Canada and throughout the world. In the "developed" world, these practices are unethical. In countries without a reliable supply of clean drinking water, they are deadly. By breastfeeding your baby, Not likely, I told him. But if it ever did happen, you can bet Quebec would lose the language rights the British granted it after the conquest of New France â€" they‘d be melted right into the pot. Driving by Fort Drum, N.Y., from which recently declassified U.S. military documents show our pals to the south have been prepared for decades to launch an attack on Ottawa (a mere 100 miles away), I had to wonder if the separation of Quebec and possibly © ie & T ‘“.' other provinces wouldn‘t seem a perfect opportunity be heated (and in some cases mixed) and placed in bottles, which in turn must be sterilized. Breastmilk is always available, requires no preparation or sterilâ€" Englishâ€"speaking provinces like Alberta and Newâ€" At the onceâ€"great French fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, a Virginian man asked me if it was true that Quebec was about toâ€"become the 51st ization. These factors become particularly important Augles Tom Brockelbank T) Breastfeeding is more convenient. Formula must WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1994 â€" PAGE 7